Frank Petrone, the town supervisor, sees Kerouac's literary star rising.

This was one of the rising literary stars of America, he told the shining-eyed girls.

A natural question, of course, is whether as a literary star she will now develop writer's block.

Though she had quite a bit of it, with all sorts of men, the male literary stars of the day were her exaltation.

Putain was followed with three more novels that established her as a literary star in Quebec and France.

As his literary star rose, the surveillance and harassment increased, and may have contributed to his fatal heart attack.

An underlying gender bias seems to follow upon this distinction, and the female literary star can seem a rare breed.

He came to New York at 17 to be a literary star; he eventually achieved his goal.

He wrote some poetry, but he was far from the literary star of the class.

Can video save the literary star?